Chapter 112: Revolution Defense War - Decisive Battle (4)
In this war, the Imperial Army had never once felt they were taking the initiative.
In the first battle, they suffered immense losses against an obviously inferior enemy force, achieving only a pyrrhic victory. Since the enemy had voluntarily withdrawn, the frontline soldiers couldn't even properly feel the triumph.
All that followed was the hellish destruction of their supply lines and the starvation and suffering caused by poisoned supplies.
In the Decisive Battle in the Western Plains of Besançon, Grand Duke Leopold succeeded in luring Marquis Lafayette into a trap, but the result was a devastating defeat when Kroxx intervened in a battle that seemed all but won.
From the perspective of the frontline Imperial soldiers, it felt as if the entire war had been nothing but the Imperial Army manipulated by Marquis Lafayette’s traps.
In such a situation, a single word uttered unconsciously by an unknown Imperial soldier.
Trap.
The ripple effect of that single word was enormous.
To temporarily boost the Imperial Army's morale, which had plummeted to rock bottom, Grand Duke Leopold meticulously prepared stratagems to counter the areas where they had been tactically outmaneuvered by the Revolutionary Army.